 Hi, I'm Johnny Erickson Tata, and my friend Patty has a knack for embroidery. In fact, displayed on my bedroom wall are several of her embroidered works, one of which has roses embellished around a poem of encouragement with each letter hand-sewn. It is stunning on the front side, but when you turn it over, well, it's not so pretty anymore. It looks like a mess, a bunch of knots of thread all matted and gnarled and twisted. You can't make sense of it.